Tags & themes in English, texts in German or English or both.

Tag Cloud / Stichwortwolke

ancient civilisations ancient mythology ancient Rome angels beaches being in love birds birdsong black blossom blue bridges brown candles Christmas clouds colours crowds darkness destiny dreams dusk dust eyes faces falling in love fire flowers flying fog forests gardens Germany glass God gold golden green grey grief hands happiness hills hope houses ice joy kisses lakes leaves light London loneliness longing love mirrors moon music night noise ocean orange parks peace pink poetry prayer purple rain rainbow red rivers roads rocks ROMAN ROADS roses scents silence silver smiles snow SOLSTICE & EQUINOX stars strength summer sun sunlight sunrise sunset sunshine surf time trees white wilting wind windows wine writing yellow

Theme Cloud / Themenwolke

ART & ARTS Autumn Autumn Haiku Birth Childhood & Youth CITIES Coasts & Islands ELEMENTS English Poems FLORA French Poems German Poems Haiku & Tanka HISTORY Humour & Satire LANDSCAPES LIFE CYCLES LOVE & LONGING Lyrics Mediterranean Landscapes Middle Age & Old Age Mountains & Hills Narrative Poems Northern Landscapes Parallel Poems POLITICS & SOCIETY RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY SEASONS Sonnets Spring Spring Haiku Summer Summer Haiku Visual Poetry Weddings & Anniversaries Winter Winter Haiku x Death xx LANGUAGES yy TYPES OF POETRY zz BEST POEMS

At the top right-hand of each page, you will find:
A link to the tag cloud. The tags are also displayed at the right-hand side further down.
A search box. A search engine should also bring up categories, tags, and bits of text.
The latest poems. The latest poems posted – not the latest written!

Bitte beachten: Die Schlagwörter und Themen sind auf englisch, beziehen sich aber auch auf deutsche Texte!

I publish some of my poems in calendars and newspapers – and many as blog posts on this site. You can search them in a number of ways:

• Language: English poems; German poems; Parallel poems  (created in both languages)
• Form: Sonnets  (a traditional European form);
  Haiku & Tanka  (traditional East Asian forms);
  Narrative Poems  (poems that tell a story);
  Lyrics  (poems that could be used for songs);
  Humour  (satirical and humorous verse)
• Subject: for instance Summer or Weddings — for details read on.

These are the main subject categories:

• Life Cycles
• Seasons
• Elements
• Flora
• Landscapes
• Cities
• Love & Longing
• Religion & Philosophy
• Politics & Society
• History
• Art & Arts.

Summer comes under Seasons, Weddings & Anniversaries under Love & Longing, and so forth. The menu is displayed down the right-hand side.

One of my main topics is the cycle of the seasons and the ages of man, which I feel strongly to be linked.

Some of my poems and lyrics are religious, some are political (although everything we do is religious and political by definition). Most poems are personal: dealing with beauty and nature and art, with love and longing and loneliness, with birth and life and death.

My favourite subjects or images are celestial bodies and plants. I am also very keen on colours; for me, writing verse is like painting with words. I am also fascinated by ancient civilisations.

Some of my poems are free verse, but the vast majority rhyme and scan; quite a few follow traditional patterns like sonnets and haiku. I strongly believe in the power of sound, the music of language, the magic of language.

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